Before this decade flies by like an elephant in the sky, some of the biggest microgrid innovations may be conceived in a city that thinks magic is possible.

Orlando, home of Disneyworld and known as the Theme Park Capital of the World and the City of Light by many, has several major entities engaged in serious, long-term microgrid and distributed energy research throughout the 2020s.

The latest includes a collaboration between municipal provider Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC) and startup Capacitech Energy on a microgrid that is focused on bringing power stability to a floating solar project.

Even before that work started, the University of Central Florida initiated its UCF Microgrid Control Lab within the College of Engineering and Computer Science on the main campus in Orlando. The UCF Microgrid Control Lab was unveiled four years ago with co-sponsorship from utility Florida Power & Light and GE Digital, offering students first-hand research opportunities around various grid-control and distributed energy operations.

UCF is a home to Capacitech Energy through the university’s Business Incubation Program. Capacitech is working with OUC on testing the company’s proprietary PowerLink rapid-response energy storage system.

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